Well, my little girl is officially a one year old and her rainbow first birthday party was a huge success! And I am so excited to share the photos with you! I know I’ve said it before, but I LOVE colour, so this party was so much fun for me to photograph!
I know you tend to see parties set up on a table against a wall, but I didn’t have room for anything like that, so I just set everything out on our kitchen counter and I was really happy with how it looked!
I made 10 tissue paper pom poms, 2 red, 2 orange, 2 yellow, 2 green and 2 blue and hung them from the ceiling (using scotch tape) above the counter:
I bought 4 glass pitchers for $2 each and filled them with blue Gatorade, Lime juice (I added a couple drops of green food colouring to get a brighter colour… shhhh…), pineapple juice, and cranberry juice. (Thank you to my mother in law for the juice!)
A beautiful rainbow vegetable tray (Thank you to my sister for making this!):
Paper plates in red, yellow, green and blue:
Rainbow fruit skewers (Thank you to my cousin-in-law for making these!):
Red, yellow, green and blue napkins:
We had a vase filled with peanut M&M’s:
We had red, yellow, green and blue plastic cutlery in plastic cups. I didn’t need the knives for anything, but I loved how they looked as a group of three, so I set them out anyway:
My mom made gorgeous rainbow jello cups (Thank you so much mom!):
And thank goodness, this time I attempted the 1 shaped rainbow M&M birthday cake, it actually worked! (You can check out my 3rd birthday cake fiasco here)
I am so happy with how everything looked! The counter of food was so beautiful!!
Out of all of the first birthday party ideas I could have chosen, I truly loved having the rainbow party theme! It was so colourful, so cheerful and so fun! I’m going to post more details about how everything above was made soon!
Gretchen@boxycolonial says
Such a fun idea for a first birthday! Love that cake! and, yes, it makes for wonderful photos 🙂
Mel Lea-Wood says
That truly looks amazing and totally doable, pinning this 🙂
Debbie @ One Little Project says
Thanks! 🙂
JustaGirlAbby says
What a beautiful first birthday party! You {and all of your helpers!} did such a wonderful job! I can’t wait to start planning my son’s 2nd birthday–so fun! I popped over from I Heart Nap Time–thanks for sharing!
~Abby =)
Julie says
I found you on I heart Naptime! I am in love with this party! its perfect and so festive!
Jodi says
We’ve done a rainbow party too, but I absolutely love your version. Impressive ideas and impressive pictures.
Vel Criste says
super cute party!!!! Love the juice! thank you for sharing!
Megan says
Love it all! So pretty. 😉
The Jenny Evolution says
What a terrific idea. Please share it (and any others) on my
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You may just get highlighted next week 🙂 Jennifer
Lauren Brown says
Everything is absolutely adorable! I love the bright colors. Great job, Mama. I’d be thrilled if you’d link up at this week’s Off the Hook!
Camila says
Absolutely Gorgeous!!! I love it… I’m sure she will love it when she sees the picture in the future!!!
Hugs
Cami @ TitiCrafty by Camila